Pynchon & Company

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ONE summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose 
hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, 
had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one George 
M. Pynchon, a New York real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars 
in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the 
job of sorting it all out more than honorary. . . .

I thought, as a friend told me, that research on this project would be 
drudgery, waiting years for results. Well, on the net, you can drag out old New 
York Times articles concerning finance in the 1900, the Social Life in 
Scarsdale, 'WASTE' as regards ownership and maintenance of land [doubtlessly 
involving tax stamps]----noted in finance book after finance book, seemingly a 
well known court case:

http://lsr.nellco.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=duke/fs

The case, by the way, is Pynchon v. Stearns.

This site has tax stamps.

http://search.store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/nsearch?unique=4d3f1&catalog=scripophily

Type in Harriman & Co.

This link goes to the Brown Brothers

http://tinyurl.com/3ch47e

Oddly enough, there are no tax stamps on this website for 
Pynchon & Co., seeing as they were in the same business at the same time.